Zechariah 1:5 Cross References

Zechariah 1:5

5: "Your ancestors and their prophets are now long dead.

You will be afraid of heights and of falling, white-haired and withered, dragging along without any sexual desire. You will be standing at death's door. And as you near your everlasting home, the mourners will walk along the streets.

"But when people die, they lose all strength. They breathe their last, and then where are they?
As water evaporates from a lake and as a river disappears in drought,
people lie down and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up nor be roused from their sleep.

For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God's hands, no one knows whether or not God will show them favor in this life.
The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether they are righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who take oaths are treated like people who don't.
It seems so tragic that one fate comes to all. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.

Now this is not a reference to David, for after David had served his generation according to the will of God, he died and was buried, and his body decayed.

The people said, "Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Even Abraham and the prophets died, but you say that those who obey your teaching will never die!

And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment,

Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone.

Another difference is that there were many priests under the old system. When one priest died, another had to take his place.
But Jesus remains a priest forever; his priesthood will never end.

I want you to remember and understand what the holy prophets said long ago and what our Lord and Savior commanded through your apostles.
First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire.
This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created."

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